Newbie Query!

[King_kamikaze]

Hi all,

I have been browsing throught this forum and found there are some excellent Access users out there, i however, am relatively new to this.

I am starting to learn quite a lot though and have taken a lot of information from this forum, my question is this;

I have been set a project, basically i will be using access to display various types of information that are downloaded daily to a spreadsheet, this spreadsheet will have a different file name every day. This is where my problem stems from, i need to be able get this database to keep updating the information in an imported table. I cant for the life of me think of any way to do this automatically, has anyone got any suggestions of where i should start.

Sorry if my question is not too clear, please let me know if i can clarify anything.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Tim

EDIT: Forgot to mention that i will be using Access 2000.

 

[Taff]

Hi Tim,

Not sure if this is the sort of thing you are looking for.

http://www.acc-technology.com/iowiz.htm

Anthony.

 

[King_kamikaze]

Yeah thanks Taff, that is kind off what i am lookin for but is there not a easier method I.E, a macro that prompts for the file name and then it would update it like that, i am sure if that is feasible or not.

Many thanks!

 

[iidx036]

Why not have the spreadsheet name stick to the same kind of format but then append something like the date at the end. eg "Information 12/01/2005.xls"

Then you can run an import via VBA with the current date appended to the end of it.

Sorry, "12-01-2005", Excel doesnt like the forward slash!

 

[Taff]

Not sure if this is the best way of doing it but try this.

Anthony.

 

[King_kamikaze]

That sounds like a good idea, the format of the spreadsheet is "Volumes 20050109.xls" which has got the date in reverse, thats the only bit that should change, is there any code i could use to pop up a message asking what date i am working on and then import using that, only reason i ask is because we work a day behind and you would have to take into account weekends so i dont think it would quite function just asking for the current date.

I am not the greatest of VBA coders as well but if i know that it is possible then i am sure i could search for a bit of usuable code!

Thanks Guys!!!

 

[King_kamikaze]

I've just tried that Anthony and its really good, but the spreadsheets consist of 3 seperate sheets, the names of these sheets should be consistant though! i.e "Application" "offer" "Complete", could i change that so it imported all three sheets from one spreadsheet?

Cheers!!!

 

[Taff]

Try this.

Anthony

 

[King_kamikaze]

Thanks alot Anthony thats gave me a good basis to work on, i am now tryin to get it to create seperate Tables rather than merge it into one!

But i cant expect you all to do everything for me, you have been really helpful though and i really apreciate it.

Thanks

 

[Taff]

No Probs,

Ant.